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Car bomb in Lebanon kills
4, injures 26 at monastery
Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A suicide
bomber crashed a pickup truck
loaded with explosives into a monas
tery where six senior Christian poli
ticians were meeting Tuesday. The
bomber, two army guards and a
woman were killed and 26 other
people were injured, police said.
They said a 2'A-foot-thick stone
wall shielded the politicians from the
main force of the blast, which
gouged out a 20-foot-wide crater.
Three bombs exploded overnight
in various parts of Moslem west Bei
rut, killing four civilians and wound
ing eight, police reported earlier in
the day.
The meeting in the Christian sub
urb of Aukar in east Beirut was to
discuss opposition to a draft Syrian-
sponsored armistice agreement
reached last month by Lebanon’s
three strongest militias in an effort
to end the 10-year-old civil war.
The six politicians gathered at the
monastery belonging to the Leb
anese Front, a Christian political co
alition which was excluded from the
negotiations.
An anonymous caller claiming to
speak for the previously unknown
“Vanguard of Arab Christians” told
a Western news agency in Beirut:
“We have staged this bombing and
we shall carry out more sacrifices.”
Speaking in Lebanese-accented
Arabic, the caller accused Christian
leaders of seeking to align Lebanon’s
Christian community with Israel and
said “This (the bombing) is the end
of everyone who is in Israel’s lap.”
All six senior members of the Leb
anese Front were injured, but only
one, former Defense Minister
Ceorge Skaff, 55, was hurt seriously,
police said.
They said those slightly hurt in
cluded former President Camille
Chamoun, 85, and his son, Dany, 51,
leader of the National Liberal Party.
Others wounded included body
guards, passersby and four soldiers,
police said.
In the attack on the Christian
leaders, the driver of the red and
blue Dodge pickup was blown to
pieces in the explosion. Police said
all they could find was a toe. Officers
said tne pickup truck carried 660
pounds of explosives,
The Lebanese Forces, a Christian
militia once allied with Israel, called
for a 24-hour general strike
Wednesday in all Christian areas to
protest what a militia communique
called “this criminal attempt to get
rid of historical leaders” of Lebanon.
At least 17 dead, dozens stranded
after onslaught of winter storms
Associated Press
Up to two feet of snow fell Tues
day over northern Arizona and Utah
as a storm turned eastward after pil
ing up huge drifts in the Sierra Ne
vada, stranding hunters and hikers
and breaking records for cold tem
peratures.
At least 17 deaths had been
blamed on a series of winter-like
storms since last week, but most
hikers and hunters reported missing
in Northern California had been
found as of Tuesday. Trucks slid off
roads and power lines tell in Utah,
and schools were closed in northern
Arizona.
“We’re projecting significant win
ter weather across the mountains at
fairly low elevations for this early in
the season, and significant show
- should remain over the mountains”
into today, Jack Hales of the Na
tional Severe Storms Forecast Cen
ter in Kansas City, Mo., said early
Tuesday.
Winnemucca, Nev., posted a re
cord low of 8 degrees below zero
Tuesday, and Yakima, Wash., had a
record low of 7 degrees. Eureka,
Calif., on the northern coast, had a
record low of 31 for the second day
in a row.
The heaviest snow Tuesday
moved into northern Arizona and
Utah. Ten inches of snow fell during
the night in northern Utah at the
Alta ski resort.
In northern Arizona the city of
Flagstaff, at an elevation of about
7,000 feet, got 10 inches in five
hours. Grand Canyon had 14 inches
and 24 inches of snow was on the
ground at Jacob Lake, on the
sparsely populated Kaibab Plateau
between tne Grand Canyon and the
Utah border.
One woman was found dead
Tuesday in a pickup, apparently a
victim of carbon monoxide poison
ing as the engine was kept running
for heat, said Yakima County emer
gency service spokeswoman Karen
Dean.
“It’s probably going to take all
week to get everybody out,” said
Jack Bartley, Yakima County search
and rescue coordinator, adding that
50 to 75 had walked to safety by
early Tuesday and National Guard
helicopters rescued 31 Monday.
In Northern California’s moun
tain counties, at least 45 people in
cluding campers, hikers, hunters
and others had been led to safety as
of Tuesday by sheriffs deputies and
rescue ski patrols, said Enk Holst, a
forest spokesman.
Man claiming
to be Hudson’s
lover files suit
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — A man who
says he was Rock Hudson’s lover in
the last years of the actor’s life filed a
$14 million lawsuit Tuesday, claim
ing Hudson repeatedly had sex with
him while concealing the fact he had
AIDS.
“He asked Rock, and Rock denied
he had it,” attorney Marvin Mitchel-
son told a news conference as 31-
year-old plaintiff Marc Christian sat
oy silently.
The suit alleges bodily injury,
mental suffering and damages for
fraud and deceit against executor
Wallace Sheft, secretary Mark Miller
and an unspecified number of doc
tors.
It seeks $10 million from the es
tate plus $Lmillion each from Sheft,
Miller and two of the doctors, saying
they all conspired to hide the actor’s
affliction from Christian.
A woman who identified herself
as a secretary in Sheft’s New York
City office said he was gone for the
day Tuesday. Dale Olson, who had
been Hudson’s spokesman before
the actor died Oct. 2, said he would
relay a request for comment to
Miller about the Superior Court law
suit.
Mitchelson said Christian lived
with Hudson for 2!/2 years and was
flown to Paris for AIDS testing last
summer while the dying 59-year-old
actor was hospitalized there.
But Mitchelson’s suit says: “It is
probable that claimant has con
tracted AIDS from Hudson.”
Mitchelson, who said Christian
has love letters from Hudson which
would be brought to court as evi
dence of their relationship, said the
actor insisted to Christian that he
was suffering from anorexia and
purposely trying to lose weight but
was not suffering from acquired im
mune deficiency syndrome.
“This is the most unpleasant law
suit I’ve ever been involved in,” said
the celebrity attorney. “There’s
nothing glamorous about it. It’s a
tragedy.”
Hudson died at home Oct. 2 of
complications from AIDS.
Tne attorney called the suit the
first in the nation to deal with the
subject of AIDS. The key issue, he
said, is whether Hudson’s doctors
had a duty to tell Christian he was
being exposed to the disease by eng
aging in sex.
dy, they 1
hide it,” said Mitchelson.
He didn’t name the doctors ac
cused in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit said Hudson learned
of his affliction in June 1984, but
Mitchelson said the actor continued
to have sex with Christian through
February 1985.
Airlines lower fares to promote holiday travel
Associated Press
FORT WORTH — Three of the
biggest U.S. airlines have announced
Thanksgiving fare cuts of up to 85
percent to lure impulse travelers
w'ho otherwise would stay home dur
ing the four-day holiday.
The first to offer the reduced
fares was American Airlines, which
was quickly followed by United and
Delta.
Mike W. Gunn, American’s senior
vice president for passenger market
ing, on Monday said a 48-hour
Thanksgiving special on the nation’s
second largest carrier applies on
flights from Thanksgiving dayth-
rough noon Nov. 30. One-way coach
fares will cost $29 for trips of 500
miles or less, $49 for flights of 501 to
1,500 miles, and $79 of flights of
more than 1,500 miles.
In response, Chuck Novak, a
spokesman for No. 1 United Air
lines, said United will match Ameri
can in the markets in which it com
petes with American.
“Traditionally in the Thanksgiving holiday period, we
have always been very light. The planes will be going
anyway, the crews will be going anyway. This is just an
opportunity to put the two together. ”
— Mike Gunn, American Airlines
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in a press statement that it would cut
fares on flights to 100 U.S. cities by
70 percent in the Thanksgiving pe
riod, and then added that the same
fares would be offered for the three
days after Christmas.
Northwest, Continental and Bra-
niff airlines said they had no imme
diate comment on the fare reduc
tions. But Russell Marchetta,
spokesman for People Express Air
lines Inc., said the no-frills carrier
had no plans to match the offers.
“Most Thanksgiving travelers al
ready have made plans for Wednes
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Some airline-industry analysts saw
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discounts during specific dates when
they know passenger traffic will be
light.
“It’s really not a gimmick. It’s an
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Timothy P. Pettee of L.F. Roths
child, Unterberg, Towbin, a New
York investment firm. “It’s some
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onto in the last year or so, looking at
their forward bookings and seeing
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